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Moonwalking with Einstein
The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
On average, people squander forty days annually compensating for things they've forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of those people. But after a year of memory training, he found himself in the finals of the U.S. Memory Championship. Even more important, Foer found a vital truth we too often forget: In every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.
Moonwalking with Einstein draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of memory, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human remembering. Under the tutelage of top "mental athletes," he learns ancient techniques once employed by Cicero to memorize his speeches and by Medieval scholars to memorize entire books. Using methods that have been largely forgotten, Foer discovers that we can all dramatically improve our memories.
Immersing himself obsessively in a quirky subculture of competitive memorizers, Foer learns to apply techniques that call on imagination as much as determination-showing that memorization can be anything but rote. From the PAO system, which converts numbers into lurid images, to the memory palace, in which memories are stored in the rooms of imaginary structures, Foer's experience shows that the World Memory Championships are less a test of memory than of perseverance and creativity.
Foer takes his inquiry well beyond the arena of mental athletes-across the country and deep into his own mind. In San Diego, he meets an affable old man with one of the most severe case of amnesia on record, where he learns that memory is at once more elusive and more reliable than we might think. In Salt Lake City, he swaps secrets with a savant who claims to have memorized more than nine thousand books. At a high school in the South Bronx, he finds a history teacher using twenty- five-hundred-year-old memory techniques to give his students an edge in the state Regents exam.
At a time when electronic devices have all but rendered our individual memories obsolete, Foer's bid to resurrect the forgotten art of remembering becomes an urgent quest. Moonwalking with Einstein brings Joshua Foer to the apex of the U.S. Memory Championship and readers to a profound appreciation of a gift we all possess but that too often slips our minds.
-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"His passionate and deeply engrossing book...is a resounding tribute to the muscularity of the mind... In the end, Moonwalking with Einstein reminds us that though brain science is a wild frontier and the mechanics of memory little understood, our minds are capable of epic achievements."
-The Washington Post
"It's a terrific book: sometimes weird but mostly smart, funny and ultimately a lovely exploration of the ways that we preserve our lives and our world in the golden amber of human memory."
-Deborah Plum, New Scientist
"Joshua Foer's book...is both fun and reassuring. All it takes to have a better memory, he contends, are a few tricks and a good erotic imagination."
-Maureen Dowd, New York Times
"It's delightful to travel with him on this unlikely journey, and his entertaining treatment of memory as both sport and science is spot on...Moonwalking with Einstein proves uplifting: It shows that with motivation, focus and a few clever tricks, our minds can do rather extraordinary things."
-The Wall Street Journal
"For one year, Foer tried to attain total recall, extracting secrets from the top researchers, the real Rain Man, and the world's memory champs. He triumphed, both in his quest and in this lively account, which is, no exaggeration, unforgettable."
"[An] inspired and well-written debut book about not just memorization, but about what it means to be educated and the best way to become so, about expertise in general, and about the not-so-hidden "secrets" of acquiring skills."
-The Seattle Times
"In recounting his year in training for the U. S. Memory Championship, journalist Foer delivers a rich history of memory."
-Discover Magazine
"You have to love a writer who employs chick sexing to help explain human memory. Foer is a charmer, a crackling mind, a fresh wind. He approaches a complex topic with so much humanity, humor, and originality that you don't realize how much you're taking in and understanding. It's kind of miraculous."
-Mary Roach, author of Packing For Mars, Bonk, Spook, and Stiff
"Moonwalking With Einstein isn't just a splendid overview of an essential aspect of our humanity-our memory; it is also a witty and engaging account of how Foer went from being a guy with an average memory to winning the U.S. Memory Championship."
-Dan Ariely, author of The Upside of Irrationality and Predictably Irrational; professor of behavioral economics at Duke University.
"In this marvelous book, Joshua Foer invents a new genre of non-fiction. This is a work of science journalism wrapped around an adventure story, a bildungsroman fused to a vivid investigation of human memory. If you want to understand how we remember, and how we can all learn to remember better, then read this book."
-Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist; contributing editor, Wired
"Moonwalking with Einstein isn't a how-to guide to remembering a name or where you put your keys. It's a riveting exploration of humankind's centuries- old obsession with memory, and one man's improbable quest to master his own."
-Stefan Fatsis, author of A Few Seconds of Panic and Word Freak
First, can you explain the title of you book, Moonwalking With Einstein?
The title refers to a memory device I used in the US Memory Championship—specifically it's a mnemonic that helped me memorize a deck of playing cards. Moonwalking with Einstein works as a mnemonic because it's such a goofy image. Things that are weird or colorful are the most memorable. If you try to picture Albert Einstein sliding backwards across a dance floor wearing penny loafers and a diamond glove, that's pretty much unforgettable.
What are the U.S. Memory Championships? How did you become involved?
The U.S. Memory Championship is a rather bizarre contest held each spring in New York City, in which people get together to see who can remember the most names of strangers, the most lines of poetry, the most random digits. I went to the event as a science journalist, to cover what I assumed would be the Super Bowl of savants. But when I talked to the competitors, they told me something really interesting. They weren't savants. And they didn't have photographic memories. Rather, they'd trained their memories using ancient techniques. They said anyone could do it. I was skeptical. Frankly, I didn't believe them. I said, well, if anyone can do it, could you teach me? A guy named Ed Cooke, who has one of the best trained memories in the world, took me under his wing and taught me everything he knew about memory techniques. A year later I came back to the contest, this time to try and compete, as a sort of exercise in participatory journalism. I was curious simply to see how well I'd do, but I ended up winning the contest. That really wasn't supposed to happen.
What was the most surprising thing you found out about yourself competing in the Memory Championships?
In the process of studying these techniques, I learned something remarkable: that there's far more potential in our minds than we often give them credit for. I'm not just talking about the fact that it's possible to memorize lots of information using memory techniques. I'm talking about a lesson that is more general, and in a way much bigger: that it's possible, with training and hard work, to teach oneself to do something that might seem really difficult.
Can you explain the "OK Plateau"?
The OK Plateau is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and type and type all day long, but once you reach a certain level, you just never get appreciably faster at it. That's because it's become automatic. You've moved it to the back of your mind's filing cabinet. If you want to become a faster typer, it's possible, of course. But you've got to bring the task back under your conscious control. You've got to push yourself past where you're comfortable. You have to watch yourself fail and learn from your mistakes. That's the way to get better at anything. And it's how I improved my memory.
What do you mean by saying there an "art" to memory?
The "art of memory" refers to a set of techniques that were invented in ancient Greece. These are the same techniques that Cicero used to memorize his speeches, and that medieval scholars used to memorize entire books. The "art" is in creating imagery in your mind that is so unusual, so colorful, so unlike anything you've ever seen before that it's unlikely to be forgotten. That's why mnemonists like to say that their skills are as much about creativity as memory.
How do you think technology has affected how and what we remember?
Once upon a time people invested in their memories, they cultivated them. They studiously furnished their minds. They remembered. Today, of course, we've got books, and computers and smart phones to hold our memories for us. We've outsourced our memories to external devices. The result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us altogether. We've forgotten how to remember.
What is the connection between memory and our sense of time?
As we get older, life seems to fly by faster and faster. That's because we structure our experience of time around memories. We remember events in relation to other events. But as we get older, and our experiences become less unique, our memories can blend together. If yesterday's lunch is indistinguishable from the one you ate the day before, it'll end up being forgotten. That's why it's so hard to remember meals. In the same way, if you're not doing things that are unique and different and memorable, this year can come to resemble the last, and end up being just as forgettable as yesterday's lunch. That's why it's so important to pack your life with interesting experiences that make your life memorable, and provide a texture to the passage of time.
How is your memory now?
Ironically, not much better than when I started this whole journey. The techniques I learned, and used in the memory contest, are great for remembering structured information like shopping lists or phone numbers, but they don't improve any sort of underlying, generalizable memory ability. Unfortunately, I still misplace my car keys.


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i worry about what kind of role model he is going to be to our children when his willpower is so weak right now...and what i'm going to say when they ask for a piece of papa's bread (we're dairy and gluten free)..."sorry kids, but bread gives you eczema and makes you sick. i don't want you to be sick." "but papa eats it..." then enters my response, then enters an argument between me and my husband. i've got to find a solution before this scenario arises. i want to keep a peaceful household.
I'm in a similar situation with this, in that dd and I are gf/cf but dh is not. It has, honestly, not caused many problems. I think that my dd really identifies with the idea of having a stomachache, and that being able to say to her, this kind of food hurts our tummies is pretty much all I need to dissuade her from going after things her father is eating. Poor kid. I've been shocked by how well she understands that some things are "okay for daddy's tum, not okay for mommy and Ally's tum."
The other thing that makes a big difference is that I don't keep gluten or dairy containing things in the house. I suppose that I am really only able to get away with this because I do all the grocery shopping. I think of this stuff similarly to the way I think of junk food--it's not an issue if it's not an option, yk?
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The liberal Democrats, the Progressives, and their allies in the anti-gun movement could care less about what surveys say about guns.We are in an extreme period of national emotion right now after the school shooting in Connecticut. They believe that now is the time for them to push through an overreaching gun control law banning all semi-automatic rifles and handguns that can possibly utilize a clip or magazine holding more then 10 rounds of ammunition by defining those guns as being "assault weapons". In order to be successful they are going to have to move fast in the lame duck Congress to get their so-called "comprehensive" gun control bill through before the smoke clears and logic and reality come back into vogue. No matter what gun control passes the Congress Obama will sign it, thus taking certain rights away from hundreds of millions of law abiding Americans because of the criminal actions of a crazy man.This is another instance of elections having consequences. All those conservatives who sat at home rather then vote for a Mormon just gave the gun control crowd an opening that they have been seeking for a long time.
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World Cup
June 17, 2006
- FTFT1Portugal
- FTFT2Czech Rep
- FTFT3Italy
FULL-TIME: Nine-man USA hold on for a point against ten-man Italy. The group is wide open.
ALMOST! Nesta curls a cross in to the middle, but Gilardino glances his header wide of the far post.
There isn't a lot of urgency from Italy; they look fairly drained, too.
Cannavarro fouls McBride as the two jumped at an Italy corner. USA breathe again.
USA have no men forward at the moment; they have dragged everyone back and are hanging on for dear life.
Oguchi Onyewu makes a crucial interception as Del Piero fires a low cross across the face of goal.
McBride heads clear Del Piero's corner at the near post.
Keller is quick to spot the danger when Pirlo tries to pick out Perrotta with a cute through-ball.
WHAT A CHANCE! Del Piero feeds a pass in to Iaquinta inside the penalty area, but his control lets him down at the crucial moment.
USA look very tired now, and it's hardly surprising; there has been some strong, determined performances this evening.
Conrad makes an important challenge on the edge of his own penalty area as Del Piero ran at him.
I have been really impressed with the USA; despite only having nine men, they have remained organised and committed and look like they could hold on for a valuable point.
Beasley breaks through the middle, but he loses the ball before spotting the penetrating run of Donovan on his outside.
GOOD HANDS! Keller fists away Del Piero's shot from the edge of the penalty area.
GOOD PLAY! Steve Cherundolo brilliantly beats his man down the right before sending over a testing cross to the back post, although McBride can't direct his header on target.
Italy are remaining patient as they search for this winning goal, but they must be getting a little frustrated.
Pirlo's cross is too deep, a real wasted chance to test Keller again.
It has been a really spirited display by the USA; they are still managing to show a lot of positive intent and look quite solid at the back.
USA have a nice spell with the ball around the Italy penalty area, but Reyna and Beasley can't manufacture a shooting chance for McBride.
Keller has kept his side in the match with that save; it was a really good leap and he managed to palm the ball away to safety.
WONDER SAVE! Keller pulls off a stunning, one-handed save to paw away Del Piero's goal-bound flick.
GOOD CHANCE! Donovan curls in a free-kick; Bocanegra climbs highest inside the penalty area, but heads off target.
Zambrotta is booked for pushing over Steve Cherundolo as they chased down a pass down the right wing.
Iaquinta seems to be having a positive effect for Italy; he has certainly got the pace to go past tiring defenders as the game goes on.
CLOSE! Zambrotta cuts inside and curls a right-foot shot through a crowd of players; it beats the dive of Keller, but spins wide of the far post.
Perrotta is back on the pitch, but he is hobbling badly and doesn't look at all mobile.
Perrotta is stretchered from the field after a nasty challenge from Bocanegra. Italy have used all of their substitutes, so if he doesn't make it back, it's nine v nine...
GOAL! NO! Beasley fires a low shot goalwards; it beats Buffon and rolls in inside the back post, but the linesman rules that McBride was stood in an offisde position and interferring with play.
Italy have certainly been dominant since the break, but they haven't really worked Keller as much as they'd have liked.
GOOD BREAK! Donovan leads a USA break with a dart through the middle; he feeds McBride, but the Fulham striker slices his left-foot shot wide of the near post.
USA SUB: Dempsey is replaced by Beasley; Dempsey has worked really hard down the right wing.
ITALY SUB: Iaquinta comes on to replace Toni; the Udinese striker scored in the previous game against Ghana.
OVER! Perrotta fires a shot over the crossbar from a tight angle; good defending from Conrad, who put him under pressure.
USA have a penalty shout when the ball strikes Nesta's arm inside the penalty area, but the referee rules 'play on'.
USA aren't going to get many more shooting opportunities; they need to do better when they get in the final third.
DISAPPOINTING! Reyna breaks forward through the middle, but he makes a mess of his shot from 20 yards, dragging it well wide of the post.
Del Piero releases Zambrotta down the left, but there is no striker to turn in his low cross.
Perrotta breaks in to some space down the right before sending over a good cross, although it is too long for Del Piero and Toni.
Pirlo is beginning to find a lot of space in midfield, and is picking out some good passes; he could really open up the USA defence with all the time and space he is being given.
ITALY SUB: Del Piero replaces Zaccardo; Lippi brings on another striker to try and capitalise on his team's one-man advantage.
USA are going to have a lot of running to do in this second half; tiredness will surely be a factor as the game progresses.
OFF THE BAR! Bocanegra heads a wickedly curling free-kick on to his own crossbar. A close shave for USA.
USA SUBSTITUTION: Convey is replaced by Jim Conrad; a defensive change from Arena as he tries to reorganise after the two sendings off.
The USA will have to gamble at the back a little for the remainder of the game; they are playing with just three at the back.
Arena still looks furious at the Pope sending off; he is prowling around on the sidelines, muttering to himself.
Cannavaro receives some treatment after landing awkardly on his ankle. He is stretchered off, and looks in serious pain.
Replays do suggest that Pope did catch the Italian striker on the ankle as he slid in; USA down to ninr men.
AMAZING! POPE IS SENT OFF! The referee books Pope for the second time for a sliding challenge on Toni. Real drama here.
So, ten against ten in the second half; that should mean the players have more space and time to create.
Italy kick off the second half.
HALF-TIME: Two red cards, two goals. A pretty chaotic first-half, all-in-all. It really could go either way from here.
It was a pretty ugly challenge from Mastroeni, on reflection; he flew in, studs-up on Pirlo, who he caught on the ankle.
OFF! Mastroeni is sent off for a reckless lunge in midfield. A harsh decision, I think, but he has to go.
NICE MOVE! Donovan's flick sets Reyna free on the edge of the area, but the captain's shot is deflected and spins out for a corner.
CLOSE! Mastroeni finds himself in space, 30 yards from goal; he opts to shoot, but curls his effort narrowly over the crossbar. Good effort.
USA will never get a better chance to record their first-ever victory against Italy.
Pirlo plays in Zambrotta down the left, but the linesman rules the full-back has got too far ahead of the play and flags for offside.
Reyna is in quickly on Gattusso, but the referee spots a foul. The two exchange some friendly banter before play continues.
Italy seem to be playing with a 3-4-2 formation since the departure of De Rossi; it is adventurous and bold - can USA capitalise?
Italy have had a disrupted build-up to this tournament, with all the match-fixing allegations in Serie A; they will now have to cope with a suspension to one of their first-choice midfielders.
Gattuso will add some steel to the Italian midfield; he is a really terrier, a snarling, biting, scrappy little player with a really impressive beard.
ITALY SUB: Gattuso comes on to replace Totti; the playmaker is sacrificed as Lippi opts to strengthen his midfield after De Rossi's red card.
Pope gets too tight to Toni, and the referee spots a shirt-tug from the USA defender.
USA have to try and stretch the play as much as possible; try to drag the Italian defence out of position and hope to create chances for McBride and Donovan.
...Convey sends the corner in to the middle, but Bocanegra heads over.
Steve Cherundolo's cross from the right is headed behind by Zambrotta. Corner to the USA...
McBride is still off the field receiving treatment for the cut to the face he received from De Rossi's elbow.
Italy will have to reorganise now; Totti seems to have dropped a little deeper in to midfield to support Pirlo.
So, Italy are down to ten men, and USA have a real chance to make them pay; there is a lot of time left for the Americans to edge in front.
De Rossi has really let himself down there; it was a malicious elbow that caught McBride square in the face.
OFF! De Rossi is sent off for an elbow on McBride. Real drama.
It was a dreadful piece of defending from Zaccardo; he wasn't under a lot pressure, but somehow managed to screw the ball past Buffon.
GOAL! And Zaccardo slices the ball in to his own net at the back post!
...Convey swings the free-kick in to the middle...
USA win a free-kick, out on the right touchline...
Bruce Arena doesn't look a very happy bunny on the USA bench; in fact, he looks decidedly grumpy.
If USA lose tonight; they can still progress if results go their way in the final group games, although it will certainly be tough for them.
The Italian fans are the ones making the most noise at the moment; USA look a little shocked after going behind.
Italy lead, but that's not really a fair reflection of the game; USA had made by far the better start.
There wasn't much Keller could do about that; the USA marking was dreadful; Gilardino had a free header inside the six-yard box.
GOAL! Pirlo curs a free-kick in to the penalty area; Gilardino loses his marker and glances a low header past Keller.
Oguchi Onyewu does well to intercept Totti's pass in to the area, intended for Toni/
Eddie Pope hauls down Toni as the two tussled for the ball in the USA half; free-kick Italy.
Italy are really struggling to find their feet at the moment; they are losing the midfield battle, without a doubt.
Dempsey looks to be a good player; he has given USA a directness and energy down that right-hand side.
JUST WIDE! Dempsey finds some space on the edge of the area; he spins and fires in a low shot, but the ball skips wide of the far post. Good effort.
RUBBISH! Reyna, who has otherwise made an excellent start, sends a pass out of play as he tries to find Dempsey. Poor play from the skipper.
USA have made a really positive start here; Arena's tactical changes have had the right effect.
OVER! Dempsey shows some silky skills down the right before firing in a low cross; it finds its way through a crowd to Convey at the back post, but he slashes his shot high over the bar.
DEFLECTED! Convey fires in the free-kick, but his effort is deflected off the wall and out for a corner.
USA win a free-kick in a really threatening position on the edge of the Italy penalty area after Cannavarro's clumsy challenge.
...Totti curls the ball in to the middle, but De Rossi is caught off-side. Brave defending from the USA.
Italy win a free-kick; Totti stands over the ball as his players jockey for position in the penalty area...
GOOD TACKLE! Oguchi Onyewu holds off Toni as the striker strode in to the USA penalty area. Good strong defending from the youngster.
USA have made the better start in the Fritz-Walter Stadion, Kaiserslautern; they look positive and dynamic - a really good sign.
USA are playing with a very high defensive line; already they are pressing up in midfield and trying to catch the Italian strikers offside.
Dempsey feeds a good low cross in to the middle, but Donovan can't get the ball out of his feet to get his shot away.
Carlos Bocanegra is starting tonight; he has come in to replace Lewis at left back. Lewis had a poor game against the Czechs; he looked a little unsure, defensively.
Donovan goes down inside the penalty area as he tried to get on the end of Cherundolo's cross from the right; no penalty.
Donovan appears to be playing a little further up the pitch than he did against the Czechs; he will be looking to feed passes in to McBride, an ever-willing runner.
USA seem to want to play at a high tempo, to really get some pressure on Italy; they'll have to be careful not to be hit on the break.
Totti is booked for a challenge from behind in midfield; a harsh decision from the referee, perhaps. USA quickly get on with the game.
There is a fabulous atmosphere inside the ground; the fans have mingled well, and are really enjoying this beautiful summer evening.
Pirlo will play an important role tonight, sitting in midfield and spraying passes around for his team-mates.
Ghana's win earlier in the day has really thrown this group wide open; a good result here and USA have a great chance of progressing.
GOOD CROSS! Toni climbs high to try and get on the end of Totti's cross, but he can only glance his header well wide.
History and form favours the Italians, but football is a crazy, crazy game - anything can happen.
Here we go. USA kick off on a very pleasant evening.
Hello again. I'm Alex, I'm here to guide you through Team USA's big clash against Italy. I'm excited. Are you?


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Rochester, N.Y.- Central Michigan split a doubleheader at Buffalo to lose its Mid-American Conference opening series, 2-1. Redshirt Freshman Neal Jacobs led the Chippewas over the weekend with three RBIs and three hits.
In Sunday's first game, Central Michigan (10-12, 1-2) defeated Buffalo (12-10, 2-1), 4-3. Trailing 3-2 heading into the top of the eighth inning, sophomore Pat MacKenzie knocked a double down the left field line. With two outs and a runner on third, freshman Zack Fields tripled to right. He was brought in for the second run of the inning on a single from Jacobs.
Sophomore Matt Trowbridge earned his fifth save of the year with a 1-2-3 ninth inning that included two strikeouts.
The Chippewas jumped on the scoreboard in the first inning. After two straight batters walked, Jacobs hit a single up the middle to bring in freshman Logan Regnier and MacKenzie to put Central Michigan up 2-0.
The Bulls answered back in the third inning though with two runs. Jimmy Topps hit a single to left, and then stole second. With two out and a runner in scoring position, Jason Kanzler hit a home run to left, tying the game at 2-2.
Buffalo took a 3-2 lead in the seventh inning on a sac-fly by Topps to score Thomas Richards from third.
Jacobs finished the game 2-4 at the plate with 3 RBIs. Fields went 1-4 with an RBI and one run. Senior Pat Kaminska earned the win, pitching 7.2 innings and striking out eight batters. Trowbridge struck out two batters and gave up zero hits in 1.1 innings of work.
Kanzler led the Bulls with two RBIs and three hits. Topps finished the game 1-2 at the plate with an RBI and a run. Anthony Magovney pitched 7.0 innings and struck out 10 batters for Buffalo. River McWilliams came in for 2.0 innings of relief, giving up two earned runs.
Game two day ended 7-0 in favor of the Bulls. After three scoreless innings, Buffalo scored two runs in the fourth. One run scored on an error at third base by senior Jordan Adams, putting Jon Mestas on first with two outs. Ryan Tulloch brought Mestas home with a single to left.
Buffalo took control of the game in the fifth, extending their lead to 7-0 with an additional five runs. Kanzler continued his hot streak at the plate, hitting his third extra base hit of the weekend. Alex Baldock brought Kanzler home from second base with a single up the middle. Three straight wild pitches by sophomore Dylan Rheault scored another run for the Bulls, making it a 4-0 ballgame. Freshman Jason Gamble came into the game after Rheault gave up two consecutive walks. With one out and runners on first and second, Mestas singled to score one run. Tulloch hit a triple to right-center field to score two runs, putting the Chippewas down 7-0.
Mike Burke pitched a complete game for Buffalo, striking out 10 batters and giving up three hits.
Senior Tom Lally finished the game 1-for-2 at the plate for Central Michigan. Junior Noel Santos and Adams each had one hit. Rheault started on the mound, giving up four earned runs in 4.1 innings.
Tulloch led the Bulls with three RBIs and two hits. Baldock and Mestas each finished with an RBI.
Central Michigan will take the field again on Wednesday, March 27, at Michigan State. This will be the first of three games against the Spartans this season. First pitch is scheduled for 3:05 p.m.


text: Willie Vogt Archives Email Author Follow @willie1701a Farm Bill Forum Brings Many Ideas Ag Secretary Mike Johanns travels to Decatur, Ill., to listen to Illinois farmers and ag groups as his agency aims toward 2007 measure. Willie Vogt Published on: Sep 2, 2005 Tweet Post to Your Wall. Email Story RSS Permalink Print Like a student trying his best to get that "A" Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns sat before a crowd of about 200 and took copious notes as a wide range of speakers offered up their ideas for the 2007 Farm Bill. The secretary hosted another of his round of Farm Bill Forums, a series of sessions where interested groups can talk about what should be in the 2007 Farm Bill the last day of the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Ill. Ag Secretary Mike Johanns, left, led a Farm Bill Forum in Decatur, Ill., this week with co-moderator Mike Adams host of the radio program AgriTalk. Johanns notes that the process, which some say has started early, is actually right on track with all the steps that must be taken to move a new farm bill forward. The session, which covered everything from renewable energy to rural development offered up a smorgasbord of ideas for the former Nebraska governor. This was not a dialog, but a listening session with Johanns dutifully taking notes. His aim: "We want to be proactive with the farm bill." Speakers at the session talked about problems with the 2002 bill, including the fact that if you lose a crop to disaster the program doesn't allow you to get paid. "That's an issue that has come up in previous sessions," Johanns chimed in, taking a rare moment to respond to a comment made by a member of the Illinois Farm Bureau who noted that the organization was reviewing different types of crop insurance. Johanns expressed interest in any reports or studies that showed how revenue assurance could be used as a tool for farmers, perhaps hinting at a direction he may try to take when the real negotiations begin on the bill in 2006. "This farm bill has a 'no produce, no benefit' design and in a state like Illinois that has experienced drought, that becomes a problem," he says. Earlier in the day, Johanns had been on a drought tour with House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill. Growers of vegetable crops chimed in with their comments that the current bill "punishes" them if they grow the value-added crops on acres also used for corn and soybeans. One producer, who raises peppers in a hydroponic greenhouse, points out that his market is already being flooded with peppers from the Dutch at below-market prices. From the first of these sessions where a wide range of topics came up from presenters, to this week's event at the Farm Progress Show near Decatur, Ill., Johanns has gotten plenty of ideas. "We're talking about those ideas, and working on our plan," he says. Whether the secretary works on draft legislation or engages Congress in a dialog about the bill, he says USDA will be involved in the writing of the 2002 bill. Johanns notes that some have observed that he might be moving too early with the process for gathering information, but in his closing comments he laid out the steps for moving toward the new bill. "The 2007 Farm Bill is not really that far off," Johanns says. "Some asked why we just didn't do a national tour of listening sessions, holding four or five. But agriculture in this country is very diverse and we wanted to get across the country." You can listen to a Web archive of the forum on the Brownfield Network. Cyndi Young, of the network was co-moderator of the event, hosting the first hour. Visit the home page for their Web stream HERE. Rural development takes the stage A key recurring theme during the Decatur event was discussion of making sure the many programs of USDA Rural Development are maintained in the next bill. From housing programs for the disadvantaged to wind turbines for rural electric cooperatives, there was plenty of praise for the Illinois effort. The agency has an extensive program of rural development that has been charged with the key infrastructure issues for rural America. Just ahead of the forum, Johanns announced a $4.7 million grant and loan funds to extend water service to new users in rural Illinois. Garden Homes, Illinois received a total of $2.5 million in USDA Rural Development loan and grant funds that will go to work on a 250,000 gallon elevated water storage tank, which will replace a smaller tank. The program services 400 customers in the Garden Homes Sanitary District. RE Water Corporation of Parkersburg, Ill., received about $2 million in loan and grant funds to be used to install 69 miles of water main to serve 182 rural residents. And Fairview, Ill., received $229,000 in water and sewer loan funds to install a water main and sewer line for a new subdivision, and provide service to a new telephone cooperative building.


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Live From Old York: Juan Martin, Chantel McGregor, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Andy Fairweather Low & Wilko Johnson
National Centre For Early Music
October 10, 2012
Spanish guitarist Juan Martinez lives in Málaga, Andalucia, deep in flamenco country. He's also very familiar with UK concert stages, spending much of his time in London. Although stating that his Musica Alhambra project represents a rare meeting between flamenco and Arabic music, this isn't actually such a flighty concept given the embedded connections dating back to Moorish days. Collaborations between Andalucian and North African musicians are not massively unusual.
Martin's Musica Alhambra Quintet broadens the repertoire out even further, with Sephardic Jewish songs and influences from the Indian gypsy trail. The lineup included a strong element of multi-instrumental palette-changing. Paul Fawcus dodged from flute to clarinet to soprano saxophone. Louai Alhenawi swapped between ney flute and his percussion spread, which included goblet and small frame drums. The other percussionist, Chris Caran, also moved around his selective kit, at one stage even settling down to play tabla. Abdul Salam Kheir rationed out his involvement, but when he was onstage, singing and playing the oud, his presence made a significant impact, his voice making a vivid emotional connection.
Martin was retuning his guitar between almost every piece, joking that the English weather was too much for its body, following a master class down in Ronda, Spain. His style involved a contrast between delicate filigree details and more robust outbreaks of strafing strums. Martin refused to claim complete dominance, always allowing equal space for the other instruments. The driving concept wasn't so much guitar solos with backing, but rather a complete panorama of ensemble arrangements.
The entire concert was devoted to player permutations that continually refreshed the ears, with each member periodically taking a break, setting up smaller sub-groups at the service of each tune's requirements. The gig was almost sold out, and Martin took pleasure in forging a bond with the crowd, carefully explaining the background to each composition.
Much of the night was devoted to the 1996 Musica Alhambra (Flamenco Vision) album, from which this band sprouted, but towards the end of the evening, the quintet played a piece from Picasso Portraits (Flamenco Vision), one of Martin's earliest albums, released back in 1981. The reading was shorn of its original synthesiser part, and provided a prime example of Martin's anecdotal talents. He regaled the audience with an involved tale of performing at Pablo Picasso's 90th birthday party, as a terrified child prodigy. Then, it was Fawcus, who took the second set up to its ultimate climax, with a soprano solo that rose towards higher and higher levels of detail and excitement, right up to the free-form sonic edge.
Chantel McGregor
October 12, 2012
The UK blues scene seems to be suddenly awash with younger talents, all making bold ascents with their nascent careers. Some of these players are female, which doubles the freshness factor. Meaning that the blues scene has mostly been a moonshine brewing den for potent male juices. Chantel McGregor plays guitar and sings, with the six strings providing her most powerful means of expression. She recently won in the 'Female Vocalist of the Year category at the British Blues Awards, although it's her guitar solos that emit the most potent thrill. The tour was lengthy, but this was almost a homecoming, as she hails from nearby Bradford.
The key to what makes McGregor interesting is the sheer variety of her material. Her own songs are violently rocking one moment, then soft to the point of almost departing the blues zone and becoming ballad pop. During this 90-plus minute set, she also played tunes by Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Nicks ("Gold Dust Woman," from her Fleetwood Mac days). This latter was part of a midway solo acoustic spot, which had the audience clutched in a spell of silence. Rejoined by her bassist and drummer, the rest of the set reclaimed an aggressively seething intensity, with several extended guitar solos bleeding through her already wounded amplifier. Previous dates had suffered from blowing valves, so now McGregor had the luxury of being able to switch between two amplifiers, giving both of them a testing time. McGregor displayed a noticeably energised connection with her drummer, entering a rampaging dialogue that kept escalating in extremity. Despite a preference for the rugged end of McGregor's repertoire, her gentler selections did add to the dynamic shading, so provided, perhaps, a necessary calming point.
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead...
October 14, 2012
No calm was allowed two nights later at the same venue. At its most basic level ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead can perform as the core duo of its founding Texan members Jason Reece and Conrad Keely, who have a predilection for swapping guitar and drum roles. In its current incarnation, the membership is doubled, which doesn't particularly restrain the leaders in their multi-instrumentalism.
Arriving in time to catch the opening act, okay, so Maybeshewill isn't a band name that suits the Leicester post-rock combo, but that was the only negative observation to make about these tightly rehearsed headbangers. Well, not headbangers, in the metal sense. This crew's body language is gathered from a very specific style, native to the form. Heads, and indeed, whole bodies careened and collided in time to each precise explosive emphasis of a scientifically accurate riff construction. The group delivered a curt, tight and concise set, descending from Battles, Trans Am and even Tortoise, with a hint of Mogwai's faster, harder stretches. The keyboard was questionably orchestral, but luckily it was equal in the mix, rather than overly prominent.
Somewhat unusually, there was a note outside the venue alerting punters to the extreme volume levels threatened inside. A rare warning for a rock club. Austin's Trail Of Dead obliged with a set that featured hardly any lulls in the jet engine scale decibel-counting. Not that it was bereft of subtleties; it's just that these were carried out on a greater scale. This was an older school of rock, with its roots in 1990s grunge. The assault was unremitting, but never slipped in its powers of engagement. Keely spent most of his time upfront on guitar, also tackling lead vocals, which had just the right amount of strained abrasion, mid-tour. By set's end, the band was passing around a bottle of Jack Daniel's, sating themselves and setting it on its travels amongst the frontal throng. It was that kind of evening. The final encore was completely genuine, as most of the band looked like they weren't planning on delivering yet another song. Ultimately, there was no escape.
Andy Fairweather Low & The Low Riders
Pocklington Arts Centre
October 17, 2012
Welsh singer/guitarist Andy Fairweather Low is many artists to many folks. Some fans revere his hits with the 1960s pop group Amen Corner. Others remember his 1970s solo albums. Some have caught him in the combos of Eric Clapton, Roger Waters and Bill Wyman. This scribe was captivated fairly late in the day, as Low became the lead guitarist in trombonist Chris Barber's band, replacing the prematurely deceased bluesman John Slaughter.
It was clear from this gig that Low's heart is now deep in the blues, and that he considers guitar soloing as being of equal importance to singing. He even felt is necessary to issue a warning at gig's start, just in case some punters had come along expecting an unremitting sequence of poppy chestnuts. Of course, Low still obliged with those old ditties, but his two sets were very much occupied with the blues. They were also well-populated with searing guitar solos.
Pocklington Arts Centre lies in a village around 10 miles outside York, and it clearly has its own scene. The gig looked virtually sold out. The theatre was quite small, with a cossetting acoustic quality and a punchy, clear sound system. All the better to frame Low's guitar sound, which sparked and smoldered with a barely contained charge. It was a king amongst amplifier emissions, and he had the playing fluency to match. The dapper Low chose to adopt the image of a banker, or maybe a tidier, disciplined type of science fiction nerd. Spectacles and skinny tie. No beer-spattered t-shirts for this band. But it still proffered an old school soulful blues, burned by smoking edges.
Low demonstrated a very distinctive vocal style, singing high, keening lines out of the tightened corner of his mouth. Perhaps Sting was influenced by him at some stage. Nick Pentelow was a major asset, providing saxophone solos on most of the tunes, invariably ridged with a captivatingly rough texture. The other members were bassist Dave Bronze and drummer Paul Beavis. The set ranged from "Bend Me, Shape Me," once covered by Amen Corner, to songs by Webb Pierce and Jimmy Reed, then "When You're Smiling" and "Wide Eyed And Legless," jack-knifing into a meaty "Peter Gunn" and the eponymously titled "Low Rider." Even if a song wasn't blues or R&B, the prevailing band sound adopted the stylistic traits of those musics. Low's governing personality and musicality managed to transform all of the material, even if some songs might have been too bland in their naked state. The Low Rider personality embraced all of the songbook's diversity, filtering everything into a toughened band sound.
Wilko Johnson
October 18, 2012
Another man with a hot guitar sound is Wilko Johnson, although attempting to pick apart the seams between "'solo"' and "rhythm" is a challenge, when the riff becomes the abstract explosion, then jolts back again. Only a few weeks earlier, Johnson's old band had played at this very venue. Even if the current Dr. Feelgood now featured no original members, its style remained closer to that of the old combo. Since departing Feelgood in 1977, Johnson has evolved to the point where that outfit's established sound is now incorporated into a general landscape of garage rock, with jazzed, funked and souled trimmings. Most of these emanated from the exceedingly agile bass antics of Norman Watt-Roy (an old Blockhead), who was caught in a perpetually soloing frenzy, even as he delivered each sinuous bass line. Johnson's hair of yore has been replaced, or rather, has vanished to reveal a shining dome. His manic chicken-walking (complete with equally manic staring eyes) remained the same, telegraphing each scattershot guitar punctuation. Playing for well over an hour, Johnson stirred up a rarely witnessed atmosphere of crowd-exultation. This was another crammed gig at Fibbers, with a pact of electricity transmission made between the audience and band.


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Spotsy Havoc Facility: 218 Industrial Drive, Fredericksburg, VA 22407
About Us
The Spotsy Havoc is a Fastpitch Softball Club consisting of girls in the 12U,14U, 16U and 18U age groups located in Spotsylvania, Virginia. All teams are composed of highly ambitious and very competitive girls who have aspirations of one day playing for their high school and college softball programs. Our teams consists of girls from Spotsylvania, Orange, Culpeper, Fauquier, Stafford, King George, Caroline, Hanover, and Louisa counties. All the girls are driven by their love of the game and their desire to succeed. The Spotsy Havoc is a registered member of NSA, ASA, USSSA, PONY and SOFTBALL NATION.
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The Havoc was put together in the Fall of 2008 as a 14U team. We had a successful season qualifying for the USSSA Nationals in our final tournament of the season. The girls continued their success into the Spring and Summer 2009 seasons where we finished 2nd in 3 consecutive tournaments. The girls qualified and participated in the NSA World Series in Salem,Va. in July 2009. In the Fall of 2009, the girls took a big leap moving up to the 16U age division. We had a competitive season and qualified for the 2010 NSA World Series in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In the Spring and Summer 2010 season, We finished second in the NSA Class B State Tournament and participated in the World Series in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In the Spring 2011 season, the Spotsy Havoc laid the ground work to expand the organization to 3 teams, a 16U, 14U and 12U. Tryouts were conducted and by the end of Summer the two younger teams were formed. The 12U and 14U got off to a good start that Fall with the 16U fininshing strong for their transition into 18U for 2012. With this transition a new 16U team was formed. Entering 2012 with four teams was a very exciting milestone for the Havoc Organization. The 2012 - 2013 Season we added an indoor cage facility. This solidified our ability to practice year around and in bad weather. As we finished out the Summer of 2013, the 18U graduated 5 girls into College. 2013 - 2014 Season is now upon us. We have a great group of talented girls with great parents. We look forward to another season of continued success.
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